r/Marbles • u/grahamofash • 6h ago
Identity request Marble Found at Bottom of Bechler River, Yellowstone NP
My knowledge in marble identification is lacking but from what I may understand:
•The blue color is sitting on the surface rather than swirled internally.
•The ribbon is more like a thin strip that has an asymmetric taper (one end fading naturally, the other cut off abruptly) and doesn’t fully wrap around.
•The seam reads as a single localized crease (u-shaped), not a full equatorial belt running all the way around the marble — it shows up once as the marble turns.
Could this indicate a transitional, single-stream American marble from the 1900s–1920s? Or a Marble King/Vitro Agate from the 1940s-1970s?